Logius, Centre for Standards Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations

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ODF Plugfest and Test Website

Jos van den Oever

https://beta.opendocumentformat.org/

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PlugFest Day 1

http://beta.opendocument.org

● Create account

● Go to wiki

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Interoperability

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ODF Plugfests● Users meet users, users meet developers, developers meet

developers

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ODF Test server audience and features

● Users

– want to have interoperability

● Developers

– want tools to improve interoperability

● Institutions

– want to know which products is interoperable

● Report interoperability issues

● Discover interoperability issues

● Learn about implementations

● Keep track of issues in implementations

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ODF Test site and factories

ODF Test ServerValidator

LibreOfficeCalligra Google Docs

MS Office

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Support and funding

● Logius pays for main developer (Jos van den Oever)

● NLNet pays for servers

● OpenDoc society sponsors ODF Plugfest

● NLNet sponsors projects to improve the test server

– Documentation, Factories, Tests, UI design

– XML ODF editor

● Forum Standaardisatie sponsors NLNet ODF projects

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Testing: compare rendering

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Page Number: <text:page-number/>

Google Docs: ‘1’ → data loss!

Everyone else: ‘<text:page-number text:select-page="current">1</text:page-number>’

The test: count(//text:page-number)=1

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Testing: small tests for data loss

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Testing: small tests

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13th ODF Plugfest in Rome

Participants

– Implementors: LibreOffce, Microsoft, Ox Docs

– Institutions: representatives for UK, Taiwan, Munich and Dutch governments

– And many users

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Some numbers on the ODF plugfest

● 77 uploaded documents

● so 77 x 122 comparisons

● 2 new factories (Calligra Karbon, LibreOffce as used in Munich)

● 3 on-line participants

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Perfect frst test

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Perfect frst test

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Table and text

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Table and text

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Triangle width

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Vertical text

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Reporting

● Taiwan will use the result of the plugfest in decisions on what software to use

● We will send out the fndings to the implementors

● We see that there is work to do on ODF interoperability

● We call on all implementors and users of ODF software to join in the effort to improve it

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Improvements to the process● Wishes

– Make it still easier

– More blogging

– Issue tracker for ODF implementations

– API for integration into websites

– Factories for mobile apps

– Links to the ODF specifcation

– Full ODF Coverage

● Achieved

– UI fxes

– Tons more documentation in the wiki

– Lots of issues opened

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Your own ODF test site

● Test server and many factories are packaged Docker

● Java application for connecting up other ODF software

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Developing on the test site

● All dependencies available via Docker

● Check out the source code

● docker/devserver/devserver.sh

● Go to http://localhost:3000

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Improving ODF interop is a community effort

● Stakeholders

– Software providers

– Users

– Institutions

– Regulators

ODF Plugfest and the ODF test website provide opportunities and tooling to improve ODF interoperability

https://beta.opendocumentformat.org/

https://gitlab.com/odfplugfest/odfserver